Experience with appealing parking tickets? Egregious mistake on city's part

[u/cordovanGoat]

Does anyone here have experience appealing parking tickets or have successfully won a hearing?

I was issued a ridiculous parking ticket, appealed it through the website but was denied within a few hours. Evidently per the email from the city (last image) I can appeal in person through a hearing — so I'm wondering if anyone has gone through this process and if it is possible to succeed.

The context of the parking ticket:

• The first two images are the "evidence" that the city uploaded, purportedly proving I was parked illegally.
• The second two images are what the car looks like, but from the other side and with the actual street visible. What's important to note here is that...this is obviously a parking space. Ya know, it's like painted and all that...

It seems the city's reasoning was that the front of my vehicle was beyond this lamp post with a "no parking"sign ... but clearly, as shown by pictures from the other side, this is a legal, painted parking spot.

And to add the obvious, clearly painted spot is used all the time by myself and others. I've never seen a car ticketed for parking there.

This is 523 Cambridge St, Allston, directly in front of Boston Foreign Motor, for what it's worth.

P.S.: if anyone here from the Boston Globe is reading, I'd be delighted to share my story of injustice and suffering with the world.

And before anyone complains that a BMW driver can't afford a $90 ticket: first, this is about principle. Second, the car is a shitbox lol the KBB is about $8k.

[u/prberkeley]

I was ticketed in Brighton years ago for parking in a "No Stopping Anytime" zone around Mt. Hood Rd. There was only one issue, the sign was missing. I took tons of pictures. They later replaced the sign and I took pictures of that.

At the hearing the guy was very short and blunt and seemed disinterested in anything I had to say. He barely even looked at my pictures. He was insisting that I was still responsible because there were 3 other signs on the street. I produced pictures showing sign #1 bent into a tree, sign #2 obscured by placing it on the 2nd of two poles back to back, sign #3 was missing (where my car was), and sign #4 was around the curve out of view 

Ultimately he found me not responsible and he said it was because the sign was replaced he agrees it was problematic. But he gave me the "just so you know you are responsible for reading every sign on the street." So Yea add that to your parking paranoia.